Thanks for the resources, Preston.

 

The cataloger who drafted a record for *** here at PUL has noted that this author published poetry under the name *** but was known professionally/personally as Arthur Gerald Geohegan. Clearly these are two separate identities of the same entity, so I’m not entirely comfortable putting *** as a 400 in Geohegan’s record.

 

Luiza

 

 

And here is a more brief, but more easily accessible, link to information on the poet, who also apparently signed some poems with the “figure of a hand”

 

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/g/Geoghegan_AG/life.htm

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

 

Preston Salisbury

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Mississippi State University

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I’m not certain what the best way to handle this would be. However, the poet in question (I’m almost certain, unless multiple poets in 19^th century Ireland signed their name thusly) already has an authority record. n 2004063485, for Geoghegan, Arthur Gerald, $d 1810-1889.

 

Now the question becomes whether one should add a 400 to the record. I would lean towards the negative, but I do think a 680 field noting that he frequently signed his name with two asterisks would be helpful.

 

For a source on the three asterisks, see Irish Monthly, volume 13, 1885, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20497274?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents for a link.

 

 

Preston Salisbury

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Mississippi State University

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Dear collective wisdom,

 

Just wanted some guidelines on creating NARs for entities whose names consist entirely out of symbols or punctuation marks. I know records like these exist in the NAF, even though they are not searchable in OCLC or id.loc.gov: the band !!! (no2005023261) was the only one I could think of off the top of my head besides Prince, of course, but there is no 400 for his love symbol #2.

 

In my case, I have a 19^th century Irish poet who signed his works as *** . Should I (or better yet: can I) have *** as the main entry? Should I do something like [three asterisks] or [three stars] instead? Would it be necessary to qualify the preferred name by $c (Poet) ?

 

Would love some input on this.

 

Thanks,

 

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Luiza Wainer

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